what is the defacto university for major metropolises ? (best, largest, Los Angeles)

[Vanderbiltgrad]

Originally Posted by First24

Atlanta - Georgia Tech

Although, Emory is Atlanta's more academically elite institution, GT is the defacto due to the combo of academics and NCAA Division I athletics.

Emory is a great school I almost went to Emory but I went to Vanderbilt instead.

[i'm not a cookie]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

I agree with this as far as students go but in LA SC has a LOT of non alumni support for football. Not surprisingly a lot of those same people root for UCLA in basketball.

If you drive around LA you will see more USC grad license plates and a lot more USC flags. Same goes for the corporate world in LA. When discussing colleges, I've encountered way more people who are USC grads over UCLA grads in the corporate world here. Then comes Orange County, one would think that Newport beach was a satellite campus of USC lol, I've seen more USC flags in Orange county than I have anywhere else in California.

[First24]

Originally Posted by Vanderbiltgrad

Emory is a great school I almost went to Emory but I went to Vanderbilt instead.

Both are very good schools. I really like Vanderbilt's location within Nashville. I bet it was an interesting college experience.

[stanley-88888888]

Originally Posted by First24

Atlanta - Georgia Tech

Although, Emory is Atlanta's more academically elite institution, GT is the defacto due to the combo of academics, NCAA Division I athletics and near the heart of Midtown.

+1. never heard of emory.

[OuttaTheLouBurbs]

Dallas/Fort Worth-TCU
Seattle-University of Washington
St. Louis-Washington University
Cleveland-Case Westerm Reserve University
Pittsburgh-Pitt/Carnegie Mellon
Cincinnati-University of Cincinnati
Nashville-Vanderbilt University
San Francisco/Bay Area-Cal/Stanford
Baltimore-Johns Hopkins University
Washington DC-Georgetown University (?)
New Orleans-Tulane (?)

And if we count suburbs and satellite cities of larger metropolitan areas...

Detroit-University of Michigan
Kansas City-University of Kansas
Oklahoma City-University of Oklahoma
Denver-Colorado University
Phoenix/Tempe-Arizona State
Salt Lake City/Provo-University of Utah

[JJG]

Originally Posted by stan4

I don't think Dallas has one stand-out university.

SMU... because it actually is IN Dallas.

Unless you meant "DFW"?

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by stan4

I don't think Dallas has one stand-out university.
Or Houston.
Or L.A.
Or N.Y.

Southern Methodist
Rice
USC or UCLA
NYU or Columbia

[odurandina]

Originally Posted by gladhands

Then it would seem odd that he skipped the Ivy League schools in New York, Boston and Philly.

NYC
Columbia
NYU
St John's

Philadelphia
Penn
Drexel

Originally Posted by odurandina

Boston the Magnificent Seven
Harvard
MIT
BU
BC
Tufts
Suffolk
Northeastern

Originally Posted by i'm not a cookie

...around LA

USC
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
Pepperdine
UCR

Originally Posted by Mr Ambitious

Chicago...

U Chicago
Northwestern
Loyola
DePaul

San Francisco
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UCSF

DC
Georgetown
GW

Seattle
U Washington

Baltimore
John's Hopkins

[stanley-88888888]

my boy visited philly and was talking about how the bus drops you off in the middle of the penn state campus (he meant upenn, i had to correct him twice).

ive been to philly several times. there is an area a few miles north of center city that is blanketed by red and white temple flags.

[Kmanshouse]

Penn and Drexel are literally RIGHT next to each other to the point you can barely tell which campus you are on. Penn likely wins here because of its Ivy status but Drexel is nothing to sneeze at. That area is a cool spot in Philly.